The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee approved its version of the defense appropriations bill on Tuesday, which recommends more than 450 budget cuts worth $15.1 billion. The bill uses that money to pay for unfunded requirements, instead of using overseas contingency...
Relying on overseas contingency operations funds creates uncertainty that could harm US national security, and President Obama and the next President should work on a plan to gradually eliminate OCO funding starting next year, according to a new report from...
Air Force B-52s on Tuesday flew close air support training as part of a large-scale, bilateral exercise with Jordan. Exercise Eager Lion 2016, which began May 15 and ended Tuesday, included 6,000 US and Jordanian troops training on scenarios such...
The 96th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La., last week became the first operational B-52 squadron to train with the upgraded aircraft. The Military Standard 1760 Internal Weapons Bay Upgrade allows the B-52 to carry significantly more Joint Direct Attack...
Gen. Frank Gorenc, head of US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa and Allied Air Command, will retire in July after 37 years of commissioned service, Air Force officials said. A successor will be named soon. Gorenc has held the...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Monday handed out commissions to the first graduating class of Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets at Yale University in more than 40 years. Yale and many other universities left the ROTC program because of student...
Lawmakers from Maryland are supporting efforts to make Cyber Command a unified combatant command, in hopes that it will bring more jobs and “prestige” to their state, the Baltimore Sun reported. The measure is included in the House Armed Services...
Russia’s intervention in Syria has slowed coalition air operations in Syria, though ISIS has lost 20 percent of the ground it once held, the UK Ministry of Defense said Tuesday during a Twitter question-and-answer session. The comments contradict those by...